My understanding is that the quality levels are low high and max. Max will be either mqa or flac depending on the version Tidal has. Eventually, all mqa will be replaced by flac. When playing tracks that are max you will not know whether they are mqa or flac. Not sure if your hardware can tell by reading something in the file header that would indicate mqa vs flac. If you don’t have the new quality levels, I believe if you update the app you will see them.
What happen to MQA on Tidal?
After listening to Tidal only on my phone the last few weeks, I went to stream on my home system but soon realized all my MQA tracks were no longer showing up and the MQA parameters were absent in my streaming settings. I see Tidal is in "administration" (Chapter 11???). One of the main reasons I subscribed to Tidal was MQA and purchased a DAC that could decode the format. I think I should have at least been informed by Tidal if it was cancelling MQA. Any thoughts?
I know a lot of people hate (hated) MQA, but like any format I have listened to (Vinyl, CD, SACD, FLAC, MQA, etc.) , some things sound great and others on a plain old red book CD sounds better.